{"id":82224,"date":"2021-06-08T11:15:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82224"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:59:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:59:01","slug":"powerhouse-storm-prop-cops-ban-for-deliberate-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82224","title":{"rendered":"Powerhouse Storm prop cops ban for &#039;deliberate&#039; act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Powerhouse Storm front-rower <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/nrl-news-melbourne-storm-duo-nelson-asofa-solomona-reimis-smith-face-bans\/91b924f3-5fcb-441b-b7a8-821b36b15033\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Nelson Asofa-Solomona\">Nelson Asofa-Solomona<\/a> will miss Sunday&#x27;s clash with the Warriors after tonight being found guilty at the NRL judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand Test international was handed a one-game suspension for contrary conduct against Titans back-rower Joe Vuna, as Melbourne held on for a 20-14 win over the Gold Coast at Sunshine Coast Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Asofa-Solomona attempted to reduce his one-game suspension to zero matches but couldn&#x27;t beat the case of NRL prosecutor Peter McGrath.<\/p>\n<p>McGrath said Asofa-Solomona had made &quot;unnecessary&quot;, &quot;avoidable&quot; and &quot;deliberate&quot; contact with Vuna&#x27;s head in the 52nd-minute incident.<\/p>\n<p>He also deemed that the 25-year-old had knelt &quot;on that player&#x27;s head as part of getting to his feet&quot; in a &quot;squashing motion&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"3c295421-4b57-4eb6-a7fb-6943df2b6e27\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/3c295421-4b57-4eb6-a7fb-6943df2b6e27\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Powerhouse Storm front-rower Nelson Asofa-Solomona will miss Sunday&#x27;s clash with the Warriors after tonight being found guilty at the NRL judiciary. The New Zealand Test <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82224\" title=\"Powerhouse Storm prop cops ban for &#039;deliberate&#039; act\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82224"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82226,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82224\/revisions\/82226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}